Photo courtesy of Foreign Media In the Canadian province of Alberta, fires raged out of control in many places due to strong winds during unusually hot and dry weather. According to international media reports, 25 thousand people have been evacuated from the affected areas of Alberta. The report states that more people in the affected…
“Last week, COVID-19 claimed a life every three minutes – and that’s just the deaths we know about”, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, briefing the media at the agency’s headquarters in Geneva. According to WHO’s Coronavirus Dashboard which has collated key statistics since early in the pandemic, the cumulative cases worldwide now stand at 765,222,932, with nearly seven million…
Roughly 258 million in 58 countries faced acute hunger at crisis levels or worse, and people in seven countries faced potential starvation, according to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC). This is the highest number in the seven-year history of the report, although much of the growth reflects an increase in the population…
An emergency situation arose in a domestic flight of Iran Air, but the plane landed safely at Shiraz International Airport. According to aviation sources, Iran Air’s ATR 72-600 aircraft took off from Lamard International Airport at 11:11 on Tuesday morning to return to Shiraz as usual. 24 minutes after departure, the aircraft was en route…
A bird collided with a plane of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) airline during the flight. According to Indian media, a fire broke out after a bird hit the plane, due to which the plane made an emergency landing. Indian media say that the passenger plane was coming from Kathmandu airport to Dubai when the…
Twitter users who left the world also got blue ticks again On micro-blogging website Twitter, the confusion deepened over the weekend when some late high-profile accounts also got blue ticks again. setTimeout(function(){ !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version=’2.0′; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,’script’, ‘https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js’); fbq(‘init’, ‘836181349842357’); fbq(‘track’, ‘PageView’); }, 6000); /*setTimeout(function(){ (function (d, s, id) { var js, fjs…
A new emergency alert service has been successfully tested in the UK. As soon as three o’clock, people’s mobile phones throughout the country rang with the sound of the emergency alert test. According to reports from London, a test emergency alert sent by the government lasted for 10 seconds. It has been reported that these…
—File photo A new emergency alert service will be trialled in the UK today. According to the report of the British media, the alarm will ring on the mobile phones today at 3 pm according to the British time. The British government says about this new emergency alert service that this new system is an…
An emergency situation arose as soon as the flight of Sri Lanka’s state-owned airline to Dubai took off, after which the plane was brought back to Colombo airport. Air Lanka Flight UL 225 took off from Bandra Naike International Airport Colombo to Dubai at 6:45 PM on Friday evening. About 15 minutes after take-off, the…
File photo The Saudi Boeing aircraft arriving in India from the Jeddah International Airport in Saudi Arabia faced an emergency before landing at the Kolkata International Airport. According to aviation sources, the Saudia cargo plane as Flight SV 972 took off from Jeddah International Airport to Kolkata International Airport in India at 3:40 am local…
